<p>Finally watched the episode last night. I really had no problem with Becky being the dog because it played out so much like the Grinch story…Becky happened to be there in the office, just like the Grinch’s dog was there in the house…it was natural that she would be the helper.</p>
<p>For a Christmas episode, it felt a bit low-energy.</p>
<p>I would have liked to have seen a bit of Hanukkah in the episode; after all, Rachel and Puck are suppose to be Jewish. We could have met Rachel’s dads over brisket and latkes instead of her playing the Christmas princess. </p>
<p>That said, I love a good Christmas episode!</p>
<p>I think Becky steals every scene she is in. Just love her.</p>
<p>I agree that there should have been some Hannakuh. Rachel has such a strong personality that I don’t think her character would have just decided to do Christmas. Someimtes I think the viewers know the characters better than the writers do.</p>
<p>Are we stuck with reruns until hopefully a NY show?</p>
<p>redbluegoldgreen - American Idol comes back in January and takes the 8:00 hour from Glee for awhile. I don’t know exactly when they will be back, but I think it may be a couple of months.</p>
<p>I thought I read that AI was moving to Wed/Thurs. Did I imagine that??</p>
<p>rom828 is correct. Idol will be on Wed. and Thurs. in 2011.</p>
<p>If AI is on Wednesday and Thursday then I don’t know why it takes them so long to get Glee back on.</p>
<p>They want to make a big splash with the post-Super Bowl episode in February.</p>
<p>I’m not sure when the next episode will air but they finished shooting yesterday and are on a break now for the holidays.</p>
<p>Really fun show last night, anyone watch? “Brains, brains, brains…”</p>
<p>I watched and enjoyed it. The “brains” chant was particularly funny…kind of an inside joke for my neuroscience-major daughter…</p>
<p>“one of those zombies bit me!”</p>
<p>Highlights of last night:</p>
<p>“Blaine and I love football. Well, Blaine loves football; I love scarves.”</p>
<p>“How about I go all Tik Tok on your face?”</p>
<p>I also thought that Karofsky was handled well, from Shue’s praising him to his being afraid to do the show at the end because of his family.</p>
<p>how about the whole thing about the cannon, and Mrs Cannon and the two baby cannons… over the top but funny.</p>
<p>I was disappointed that I didn’t know that Glee was scheduled to be on after the superbowl (which I left at halftime). I found Glee about a half hour into the episode. I don’t remember it being advertised last week at all.</p>
<p>I saw it, and I was disappointed. I have liked Glee since it first came on, but have found my enjoyment fading as the antics of the Sue Sylvester character became strictly one-dimensional and so over-the-top. With preposterous plots and one-note cartoon characters, the resemblance to anything approaching real-life is gone – and with it, the show’s relevance. Last night I found myself wanting to fast-forward through most of the show to just watch the musical numbers.</p>
<p>Can’t watch for reality, that’s for sure. Fire hula hoops, canons, kids signing their own permission slips – one just has to suspend all sense of reality.</p>
<p>I am OK with suspending reality for the musical numbers, and with other stuff, too. But when a teacher is rampaging through the school, shoving students and trashing equipment with no consequences, and when the football team’s two best players leave the field mid-game to recruit people for the half-time show … it’s just stupid.</p>